Subscribe to my email list to stay updated with new recordings and shows!

ABOUT MY MUSIC

My name is Ariel Root Wolpe, and I am a musician dedicated to Jewish life, tradition and spirit. My music aims to inspire common themes of humanity and give voice to the unspoken sentiments within us all, and my lyrics hope to open your heart to the truths they hold.

I am currently studying to become a musical rabbi in Los Angeles, California. In LA, I started the band Lev Tahor, a group of Jewish musicians who focus on prayer leading and creating spiritual music. At the start of my rabbinic path, I made music and Jewish ritual in Oakland, CA. My album My Teacherswas a San Francisco Bay Area collaboration and a fundraiser for my first year of rabbinical school. I am currently working on an album of prayers inspired by Jewish liturgy, hopefully to be released in the next year.

Before I started my rabbinic journey, I devoted my music and studies to interfaith work. My senior year of college I created the inter-religious CD Spirit Sounds, which features musicians from six religions and centers around coexistence, struggles of faith, and the spiritual force of music. In my accompanying honors thesis on inter-religious music, I argue that interfaith music can convey fresh dimensions of understanding, raise up an individual within the context of a tradition and help build co-existence. I believe that all this is possible when composing music within the Jewish tradition, and so I create music inspired by Torah, Jewish community and the Divine Source.

If you would like to learn more, please contact me or join my email list to stay updated with new music, ideas and events.